"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS World News Roundup – September 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This September 19th in 1995 had a lot to do with still-at-large domestic terrorist The Unabomber and his demand to publish a 35,000 word manifesto…
– News from BBC World Service – Mutual Correspondent John Steele – Radio Paris English Service – September 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No sooner had war been declared than news of the sinking of an unarmed…
– BBC World Service – London Column – July 18, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the war continued in the Pacific, only weeks away from its final end, Europe was slowly putting the shattered pieces back together,…
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Week ending August 4, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A week of drama, the week ending this August 4th in 1973. Supreme Court challenges to the War in Cambodia,…
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon…
– NET – Newsfront – May 12, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the U.S. excursion into Cambodia, and the repercussions from that move still fresh in the minds of Americans on this May 12th in 1970,…
The opening day of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, this April 25th in 1945. Within days of the death of FDR and within days before the eventual collapse of Nazi Germany, the United Nations was formed out of…
Lowell Thomas and the News – April 24, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. 78 years ago, it was only a question of days before Germany called it quits. With Soviet troops in Berlin and the fighting house to house,…
NBC News Of The World – April 17, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from London this day. Touted as a “reprisal attack” by Germany for Britain’s raid on Berlin and Potsdam a few days earlier, the Luftwaffe…
– April 3, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 579 days since the War in Europe got started, April 3rd in 1941 was no less suspenseful than other days during…